Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inherit land. If U.S. sugar companies do not sell out within a year, their land will be expropriated and paid off in 20-year government bonds bearing 4.5% interest. According to Castro's estimate, made on a television show, the bond payments would range from $15 to $45 per acre, just one-fourth what the land was worth a year...
...stark. Less than 5% of Latin America's 8,000,000 square miles is under cultivation, although two-thirds of the 190 million people live from agriculture. Population density is only 24 to the square mile (v. 54 in the U.S.), but millions go hungry. Farm productivity per man-hour is less than one-fifth that of the U.S., food output barely keeps pace with population, and most of the 20 countries must import food...
Last week, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, doctors found a tentative answer and a disturbing charge. Toronto's Dr. Brian P.L. Moore sifted a mass of data, found that incompatibility reactions occurred at a rate ranging from i per 2,000 bottles to 1 per 10,000, with an average of 1 per 4,200. But for each obvious reaction there are at least four cases where incompatibility causes a hidden sensitization, preparing the ground for trouble with the next transfusion or the next pregnancy. So the overall risk is closer to 1 in 600, Dr. Moore concludes...
...open market, concentrated on quick profits. M.I.T. shunned the lure of the fast profit, concentrated on long-term gains. More important, it threw out the closed-end idea by continually selling shares to anyone who wanted to buy, redeeming them when anyone wanted out at the net asset value per share on the day they sold (for M.I.T.: $14 per share last week...
...Beecher and Smith checked swimming times, running speeds, shot-putting, and weight-throwing in their study. Weight-throwers registered the greatest improvement, with a three to four per cent increase in performance after dosage...